strike terror in
Example Sentences
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The bogeyman invoked to strike terror in commuters is the specter of punishingly high tolls on Interstate 66 in Northern Virginia — specifically $17 tolls, as scary as any Halloween fright.
From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2015
Few things strike terror in people quite like the specter of Ebola.
From BusinessWeek • Oct. 23, 2014
They hoped to strike terror in capitalist and governing classes and bring about martial law, which they believed would be equivalent to military dictatorship.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stuart had told him that he could ride around McClellan's whole army, cut his communications and strike terror in his rear.
From The Man in Gray by Dixon, Thomas
It was such a very little while ago that men had trembled at a look, a word from him: his silence had been wont to strike terror in quaking hearts.
From Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
